Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 56

So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and they saw that the poor starveling had a big new house, much finer than many merchants’ houses.

Who acts: rich man, Things, poor starveling · What happens: go, see, have · To what, where: big new house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, Things, poor starveling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 starveling	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 starveling	amod
25	starveling	starveling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 house	det
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 finer	punct
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 finer	advmod
33	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 house	amod
34	than	than	ADP	_	38 houses	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 merchants	amod
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 houses	nmod:poss
37	’	's	PART	_	36 merchants	case
38	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 finer	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	the rich man		day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Things = thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	the poor starveling	a big new house		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 56